"To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else."

-- Jack Kornfield

#Spiritual Quotes #Animal Quotes #Body Quotes

“God supplies the needs of His people according to their needs but does not ordinarily allow stockpiling.”
“Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" "If I did?”
“Every person whether Greek or Barbarian who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to commit injustice nor return it unto others, but to avoid the company of busybodies, and hold in contempt the places where they spend their time courts, councils, marketplaces, assemblies in short, every kind of meeting or reunion of thoughtless people. ... People such as these, who find their joy in virtue, celebrate a festival their whole life long.”
“But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.”
“Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants. It consists in scattering them abroad generously with joy and magnanimity, not reluctantly or under compulsion.”

Source : Saint Symeon (the New Theologian) (1980). “Symeon New Theologian”, p.156, Paulist Press
“We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.”
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
“And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.”

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